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A realtor is examining data on average home prices in four separate neighborhoods for the past year. Which graph gives the most accurate representation of the home prices in a neighborhood? |
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Which statistic gives the most meaningful information about what price you should expect to pay for a certain baseball bat if the following data are a set of prices at different stores for the bat. {10, 10, 10, 10, 10.50, 11, 12, 14, 18}. |
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median |
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mode |
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range |
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mean |
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Which statistic gives the most meaningful information about the central tendency of the data {23, 25, 26, 26, 27, 29, 29, 30, 450, 450, 450}? |
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mode |
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mean |
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median |
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range |
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An automobile dealer wants to sell a certain car for $20,000. If three other dealers in town are selling the same car for $15,000, $15,000, and $30,000, which measure of central should the car dealer use to describe this data to his customers? |
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median |
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range |
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mean |
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mode |
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Which of the following is a way in which statistics are made to be misleading? |
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All three measures of central tendency are presented. |
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The actual data are shown, and you are allowed to figure out the measures of central tendency on your own. |
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Outliers on data are brought up and their effects on the measures of central tendency are explained. |
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The scale is altered on a graph. |
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